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Woman faces trial for selling house with forged papers in Sharjah

Sharjah - The victim claimed that he handed over the money to the woman after she gave him the ownership papers.

A woman stood trial at the Sharjah Criminal Court on charges of selling a property using forged papers five years back.
In October 2013, the woman - a GCC national - was sentenced in absentia to a five-year jail after the person she allegedly sold the house to brought a case against her.
The victim claimed that he handed over the money to the woman after she gave him the ownership papers. However, when he went to the authorities concerned for registration of the house, he discovered the documents were bogus.
During the court hearing a day back, the defendant expressed her dismay over the court ruling (jail sentence) pronounced in her absence. She told the judiciary that she learnt about it only after she returned from outside the country and was completely unaware about the existence of such a case against her.
She told the judge that she had borrowed Dh10,000 from the man. Later, she had paid him back the money after he lodged a complaint against her.
The defendant contended that she had been in a foreign country for treatment of her daughter and had to travel extensively. The woman said that she was arrested at the airport and was brought to court.
She said that she has to go back again to the European country where the treatment is going on.
The court adjourned the case until the plaintiff testifies at the court and confronts the accused.
amira@khaleejtimes.com